No leader can create sustainable, significant change without a reservoir of good will. Without that, you always tend to compromise with failure.

Failing organizations are usually over-managed and under-led.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born.

The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

Leaders learn by leading, and they learn bestby leading in the face of obstacles. As weather shapes mountains, problems shape leaders.

You are your own raw material. When you know what you consist of and what you want to make of it, then you can invent yourself.

Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.

Leaders are people who do the right thing; managers are people who do things right.

Leaders must earn the trust of their teams, their organizations, and their stakeholders before attempting to engage their support.

Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.

Trust is the emotional glue that binds followers and leaders together.

Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.

Sometimes words are just a crude translation of love.

Our destiny is not mapped out for us by some exterior power; we map it out for ourselves. What we think and do in the present determines what shall happen to us in the future.

I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.

There is the fear that you somehow neglected to say what was really yours to say.

The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

Humanity has to travel a hard road to wisdom, and it has to travel it with bleeding feet.

Everything in nature takes its form from the sphere, the cone and the cylinder.

Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

It is obvious that mathematics needs both sorts of mathematicians, theory-builders and problem-solvers.